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"I have everything in the world now."
It's been a nightmarish year for natural disasters here in the States and abroad. It helps to find kernels of hope amid the despair. That's what Judy Pugh was looking for among the ruins of her home in tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa. The local news had come to the rubble that used to be Pugh's house to report the story of how her life was saved when she became trapped under a collapsed wall. But less concerned about her own brush with death, Pugh's thoughts were with Katie, her cat who was lost in the twister. The cat not being the story--there was probably no chance that it had survived, after all--meteorologist Ted McInerney talked to ...